earleh@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Earle R. Horton) (12/07/89)
I am working on a Script Manager compatible text editor which does not use TextEdit. I would like to test this thing with some of the Macintosh system disks in Disk Central on Phil and Dave's Excellent CD, particularly the right-to-left systems like Arabic and Hebrew. I notice that these two systems are available on the CD, with a Script Manager major revision level of 1. What I would like to do is to extract the Arabic and Hebrew Script Interface Systems and associated resources from the System Disks, and install them on my development hard disk. I want to do this so I can test revisions of my program without having to reboot off the Arabic floppy, then reboot off the Kanji floppy, etc. The problem is that the Script Interface Systems I have are version 1, while my development system is System 6.0.3, with Script Manager major revision 2. The Script Interface systems detect that the Script Manager is much newer than they are, and refuse to install themselves. The Script Manager 2.0 Manual claims that I can circumvent the Script Manager version numbering scheme by hacking INIT 2 to have an older version number for testing purposes. OK, I tried this, but System 6.0.3 has no INIT 2! Where do I patch System 6.0.3 so that older Script Interface systems will install themselves? Earle R. Horton